With its fresh wordplay and troublesome entourage, it's no surprise that Larry David's irreverent hit sitcom has inspired rap but, as Richard Watson discovers, rhyme-spitters love TVEver since Big Bank Hank hooked up his fancy colour TV to watch his beloved New York Knickerbockers play basketball on The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit Rapper's Delight, rappers have remained glued to the idiot box. Big Daddy Kane bragged that, for sheer entertainment, his rhymes were "better than Dynasty or Hill Street...
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